Ian Wienand announced the creation of a sourceforge project to mangage the Gelato@UNSW group's kerncomp scripts for automatic kernel builds and simulated boots. Ian explained, "what we'd really like to start with is other people donating their autobuild scripts (I know there are several around). At least then they are in one place for others, and hopefully we can all work together to create a combined really excellent one."

The kerncomp script is currently used by the Gelato project to do nightly IA64 builds. The new project page notes, "we have found the nightly builds have been particularly useful in finding problems with default configurations easily." The script uses Cogito to automatically download the latest version of the Linux kernel, builds various configurations, applies patches with quilt [story], boots the test kernels with a SKI IA64 simulator, and generates HTML and RSS output. Ian requested that other people working on similar projects email him directly.

From: Ian Wienand [email blocked]
To:  linux-kernel
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Automated Kernel Build Regression Testing
Date:	Wed, 11 May 2005 15:16:10 +1000

Hi,

Gelato@UNSW have been doing nightly IA64 builds and simulator boots
for a long time (http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/kerncomp; thanks to
Darren Williams we've been following the git trees from day 1) and a
few members of this list have recently asked for our scripts.

In response we have set up http://kerncomp.sourceforge.net/

What we'd really like to start with is other people donating their
autobuild scripts (I know there are several around).  At least then
they are in one place for others, and hopefully we can all work
together to create a combined really excellent one.  If you're
interested in doing that, please reply to me personally.

We've also started a list which we invite you to participate in.

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kerncomp-devel

Thanks,

-i
ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au

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